Presidential Healthcare Reform Rhetoric

Noam Schimmel is Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, Oxford University, UK, and Associate Fellow at the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, McGill University, Canada. He earned his interdisciplinary PhD in Media and Communication, incorporating political science, public policy, and human rights from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research focuses on the politics, ethics, and practice of human rights, and his articles have appeared in a range of journals of political science, human rights, development, and education.

• Acknowledgements.- Table of Contents.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2:  History of American Liberal and Conservative Healthcare Rhetoric and Public Policy.- Chapter 3: Methodology and Theory: The Social Imaginary and its Moral Order.- Chapter 4: Harry Truman’s November 19, 1945 Address to Congress on Healthcare Reform.- Chapter 5: Lyndon Baines Johnson’s Remarks at the Signing of the Medicare Bill, July 30, 1965 and Related Speeches.- Chapter 6:  Bill Clinton’s September 22, 1993 Address on Healthcare Reform to Congress.- Chapter 7: Barack Obama’s September 9, 2009 Healthcare Speech to Congress.- Chapter 8: Conclusion.- Bibliography.

“Noam Schimmel’s Presidential Healthcare Reform Rhetoric provides an historical, political, and moral analysis of why the issue of state-sponsored health care has become a pivotal part of the limited-versus-big government debate. … the book provides a systematic scrutiny of how the health care–related rhetoric of these presidents transformed from an issue emphasizing obligation and rights to one centering on efficiency and individual responsibility.” (Jae Sik Ha, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 48 (3), September, 2018)